The envoys of Chu and Wei thought that they had obtained what they wanted, and at the same time, they were satisfied with the assurance that the Mo people would not go out collectively to serve another country.

Sometimes even if it is right, it is not true, and the truth will be implemented.

Wei and Chu have their own difficulties in reform, and the overly radical "righteousness" of the Mo can also be said to be as long as this "righteousness" is still there, it is impossible for the monarchs of various countries to use the Mo Yiyi to change.

The envoys of the two countries stayed in Pei County for a short time and chose to leave before the autumn harvest.

Soon after they left, the Xuanyi Department led by Shi once again pointed out that on the issue of the "universe", they had a second verbal battle with Lie Yukou thousands of miles away from each other.

This time the battle of words can be regarded as pulling this legendary Lieyu into the concept of the ink man.

Applying the concept of the Warring States Period and the Mo's view of time and space, it is said that "Jing Chu is not without things, but it is called the south, and there are many people in the south of the cover".

This is a discourse that expounds the concept of the relative position of space, which Lie Yukou refutes.

Lie Yukou has already read the falsified "Classic of Mountains and Seas" circulated by the ink master, and has a lot of complaints about the concept that the earth under his feet is round, but he can't refute it from other issues, so he has to feel that the logic is not consistent in the ink man's logic.

He asked the Moji rhetorically, if the earth under my feet is round, then go all the way south, past the so-called pole, but I have not changed my direction.

So, in fact, I'm going north, but I haven't changed the direction of going south, so if the earth is round, then doesn't the ink think that north is south and south is north?

This is a question that is easy to answer, but not easy to answer, and it is also a question that makes Shi extremely happy, and it is obviously a little closer to the philosophy of "destroying people".

In addition to Lie Yukou writing a rebuttal, Yang Zhu, Confucianism, Lao Dan and other hundreds of schools of thought also expounded their own views, either agreeing with or opposing them.

After the envoys of Wei and Chu left, Shi had been busy with the township school and writing articles to fight, but he didn't know the Spring and Autumn Period.

One day in late autumn and winter, he had just finished writing an article on how to refute Lie Yukou's question, when Gongzaoye pushed the door in, saw Shi was sorting out the paper there, and asked, "Finished writing?" ”

Shi shook his wrist, looked at the scar on Gongzaoye's face, and wanted to ask who left this scar, but after thinking about it for a long time, he held back and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Gong Zaoye sat aside and said with a smile: "Big deal." Now that the autumn harvest is over, the winter wheat has been planted. Through the craftsmen's association of Sanjin, I also found many craftsmen who can forge iron, but they don't seem to know the method of furnace melting and annealing you mentioned. To the south, there is ore, and the black stones there can burn, and everything you said is there. Now that the people's affairs are also busy, and your Xuanyi Department has also made the reason clear, it is time to hurry up and do this well. ”

Shi rubbed his hands and asked excitedly, "Those craftsmen from Sanjin have already come?" ”

"It's coming. It's just that they haven't heard of the kind of iron smelting method you mentioned. ”

Although he said this, Gongzaoye did not doubt the words of the suitable, and believed that since the suit had said it, it would definitely be able to do it.

Iron tools occupy the most important role in the "Paradise" of "Speaking, Knowing, and Inference", and whether or not iron can be smelted in a cheap way is also related to whether the inference of the Writer's Paradise can stand on its feet.

At this time, through the wheat and two-season rotation method, the prestige of the ink in Pei County temporarily reached a small peak, the second season of this year's soybean harvest again, the ink man's oil also opened up sales in Taoyi, a large number of soybeans were purchased by the ink man, but also brought a lot of income to the farmers.

The people of the Xuanyi Department have also made it clear that they can explain all the truths that can be explained clearly, it is the time when people's hearts are boiling, and it will be a waste of time not to take advantage of the opportunity to smelt iron at this time.

The use of iron in the Sanjin Dynasty was relatively early, but in addition to meteoric iron, the earliest artificial iron was still block iron.

A few decades ago, when the Sanjin Dynasty cast the criminal tripod, it was in the name of military endowment, a large amount of iron was levied from the people, and the iron smelting level of the Sanjin Dynasty was acceptable, especially in the next few decades, the iron smelting level of South Korea will continue to improve.

Block iron and furnace iron go in two different directions.

Furnace molten iron is suitable for the manufacture of agricultural tools in large quantities, make good enough refractory bricks, build a curved surface heat reflex furnace, and separate the fuel and iron in two chambers to avoid pollution, and wrought iron can be obtained by stirring.

Among the ink masters, a pile of smelted copper, and a pile of potters, as long as they understand the principle of furnace iron melting and high-temperature annealing kiln, they can completely manufacture agricultural tools in batches. If you don't annealed pig iron, it's still too brittle, and it's no problem to make farming tools with annealed pig iron.

Tao Fan, you Fan, Tie Fan, all kinds of pouring methods are also how to get how to get, from the bottom has accumulated a lot of technical handicraft ink writers, they are one of the most valuable assets of the Mo family at this time.

The steps of furnace iron melting, annealing, or stirring and decarburizing into wrought iron are completely different from the block iron-making method on the Sanjin side, but these first blacksmiths in Zhuxia can still be used to teach some iron-forging techniques.

At this time, pig iron can only be cast but not forged, and the wrought iron with arc reflection and iron dye separation can be forged.

Since Gongzaoye came forward to find Shi, the rest of the high-level leaders who thought that they were also ink people had also arrived, so Shi cleaned up and followed Gongzaoye to another room.

The artisan dialect accent of Sanjin is very strong, and he is also a person who can only speak the Songlu dialect, so he can't understand what they say.

However, there are many people who know dialects among the ink scholars, and there are a lot of people from the Sanjin Dynasty, and if you say a little, you will know that these people are very happy to be here.

They are not members of the Craftsmen's Guild, but some of the morality of the Ink Maker is in line with the ideas of the craftsmen, and now the Ink Maker has money and is hired with gold, these people are naturally satisfied.

After receiving the money from the inker, he had to help the inkman, and a craftsman roughly listened to the inkman's method of melting iron and smelting iron, and shook his head again and again: "I'm afraid there is no such ironmaking in the world." ”

"In all iron making, the ore and charcoal must be burned together to form a rough lump, and then the debris in it is squeezed out little by little with a hammer, and finally it becomes soft and then beaten with charcoal......"

"As you ink writers say, like copper smelting, I have not heard of iron directly."

The ink artist has a lot of trust in some of Shi's ideas, and he also laughs at what he says to the craftsman, and people won't believe many things if Shi doesn't put them up before.

Shi looked at the thick arms of these craftsmen, and said that the accumulation of hydraulic mills and the like is enough to make hydraulic bellows and hydraulic hammers, and I am afraid that your arms will not need to be so thick in the future.

Listening to the craftsmen's doubts, it was appropriate for the rest of the ink makers to bring the iron ore that they had collected on the hills south of the Mulberry before.

As soon as the iron ore was taken, the eyes of the craftsmen immediately showed a satisfied luster.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can see it through their expressions.

Sure enough, after the craftsman's words were translated by the ink master, it was clear that the craftsman meant that these iron ores were good and could be used to make iron.

Shi didn't answer, but nodded at the few ink people behind him who knew the inside story, and there were bursts of cheers from behind.

There are a lot of such iron ore mines between Pei and Peng, Xuzhou was originally a heavy industry mining city in later generations, and there are a large number of coal mines in the area of Weishan Lake that have not yet been formed, and iron was smelted here in the Han Dynasty.

Today, the Yellow River has not been diverted, and the abundant water and grass and fertile land are enough to support a large non-agricultural population.

To the north to Taoyi, to the southeast to the ditch, the geographical location can also be said to extend in all directions.

Everything is ready, but the difference is the iron-smelting furnace mentioned earlier, and it can even be said that the ink man has been doing righteousness in Pei County for a long time for this purpose and creating a foundation.

Since iron ore can be used to make a block of iron, it is not a problem to use it to make furnace molten iron.

Shi said to the craftsmen: "The ink man knows the will of heaven and has his own way. I'm just asking you, if the inker makes soft iron, which is the kind of soft iron that doesn't need to be beaten and has no impurities, can you make it into the shape that the inker needs? ”

After the ink artist relayed the appropriate words, most of the craftsmen were full of surprise, and did not answer the appropriate question, but questioned the hypothesis of the suitable.

Lump iron is sponge iron, the temperature is too low, it is not yet time to melt, a large amount of charcoal, slag and iron are fused together, and it needs to be constantly beaten to remove the impurities inside.

This thing can be used as a weapon, but it is too inefficient to use as a farming tool.

Only one blacksmith said: "If there is really a soft iron that can be used without beating, I can smash it into the shape you want." ”

He didn't say anything, but he was full of joy, and asked a few words about where this person was from and what he had built.

This craftsman was born in Jindi and Gongyi. Gongyi belonged to Wei at this time, and it was originally regarded as the Gyeonggi region of Zhou Tianzi, and the Gongbohe, who was once a republican administration, was originally a fief in Gong.

It used to be the capital of Zhou, and it was between Wei and Zheng, the orthodox Central Plains, and the technology was advanced.

The craftsman said that he had used to make iron shovels out of block iron, and he felt that he could use block iron to make iron shovels, and the level was not low.

Iron shovel is a rare iron farm tool that has appeared in some of the most Central Plains areas of the Sanjin Dynasty, and this tool has appeared for a long time, copper and stone.

It looks like a concave and convex character, and the bottom is like a crescent blade, and a wooden stick can be used to dig pits and weeds, but the effect is similar to that of a shovel.

However, the shovel cannot turn the soil, and the shovel can turn the soil, probably because the bronze is too brittle, and the block of iron can make the light of the shovel.

Retreating to the second, I can use block iron to make a shovel, and I am quite satisfied.

Shi asked a few more rather strange questions, but the craftsman was able to listen to them and give answers that were either appropriate or incompatible.

He asked strangely, but some inkers heard the true meaning of weirdness.

Gong Zao Zhu listened to the strange questions that Shi asked, pulled Shi slightly, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of making a tube, and asked in a low voice, "You want to make this out of iron?" ”